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by mason55 9y ago
The book she mentions, "The Linux Programming Interface," sounds pretty useful, but it's seven years old at this point. Does anyone know how much has changed or if there's a new version coming any time soon? Seems like
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The thing that usually gets left out there is savings. If you take SF salary + SF costs and cut everything in half then you also end up with half the money left for savings. The thing about saving for retirement is that you can contribute
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by mason55 9y ago
> There is only one way to measure UX IMO and that is conversion Are you just saying that outside of a sales funnel there's no way to measure UX? Like, on a day-to-day product usage basis it's not possible to measure my user
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by mason55 9y ago
Please don’t quote large blocks of text like that, it’s impossible to read on mobile because of HN’s crappy web layout
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Genesys has been doing this for literally decades
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I mean, you could write "Bancor, One of the Most High-Profile Initial Coin Offerings, Has Crashed 50%" Then it's informative to readers who know what Bancor is and those who don't.
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by mason55 9y ago
Slack has raised insane amounts of money at really good terms just because they can. The funding world is insane right now and they are taking advantage. They can easily do what Facebook or Oracle did and just buy up any competitions with
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by mason55 9y ago
The key to a successful BuzzFeed restaurant would be lots of different restaurants, each catering to a different market segment. It’s like the old story about how Prego discovered that you can’t just make one sauce everyone loves, you make
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by mason55 9y ago
My guess is that it’s the manner by which they were winning. Thirty $50 bets per week over five months is over 500 bets. That’s not the long run but winning at an 8.5% ROI over that many bets is probably enough for the house to realize
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Yeah, that worked, thank you!
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I added ctrl-P bind to open with vim. But if I realize I didn't want to do that and want to cancel then hitting ESC or ctrl-c just drops me into vim with no file. Any ideas on how to change that bind so that I can cancel back to the
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> The second is entirely the underwriter's problem. A company only IPOs once; there's no reason for them to take a hit to help the underwriter and friends make money for no reason. The underwriter takes a cut and a fee regardl
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In the US graduate students typically do "grunt work" as part of their program. For example, you might be a research assistant, where you help out with your professor's research. Or a teaching assistant, where you help a pr
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by mason55 9y ago
There are other reasons you might want a pop as opposed to squeezing every possible cent out of the IPO - For better or worse, a pop is seen as a successful IPO. A lot of the market is about expectations and if you have an "unsuccessf
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by mason55 9y ago
I think that one reason Spotify Discovery works so well for me is that I really only use Spotify to listen to one genre of music (however you want to describe it, but it ranges from trap to alternative R&B). Otherwise I'm listenin
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> I used to setup my shell so that the text on the production servers was red I do the same. People always walk up and make some snarky comment like "wow, nice background color" and then I explain why I have a red terminal b
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by mason55 9y ago
Yeah, maybe I watch too many movies, but "hola amigo" feels like a totally appropriate greeting before you're about to do some shady spy shit. I think that it's actually a good greeting because it indicates to the other
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That makes me ill just thinking about it. We’re you always invincible to seasickness or was it something you developed?
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> Which would you rather write? I get your point but I don't think this is a good example. This is the kind of thing you write one, put in your .vimrc, and then never have to think about again. Especially if you're putting
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> vim et al are sorta on the verge of being irrelevant even deprecated because there are two things that are getting better: modern languages and IDE's. I don't spend a ton of time coding any more but do spend a ton of time d
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> your life wouldn't change much from a net worth of $14m to $50m. You could buy a nicer jet? No one is buying a jet with a $14mm sale
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Yeah, growing up with ECHELON and Carnivore, the whole Snowden thing didn't surprise me at all. You didn't even need to assume they were doing it, past evidence pointed to the fact the government was 100% spying on everyone alrea
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FWIW Campton Place in SF is a two star Indian restaurant
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How do you manage dependencies? One of the best parts about virtualenv (to me at least) is that I can do pip install without infecting the rest of the system. I guess I've never looked, does virtualenv provides a bin/pip which al
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There's a link in the article which explains why https://gist.github.com/datagrok/2199506
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Blocks are supposed to be found every 10 minutes (difficulty adjusts to maintain this average). Theoretically someone would find the next block 10 minutes after you found yours and they would broadcast it. Then the next block would be fo
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I'm looking for recommendations for those in New York State. Everything seems to be blocked here.
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Second "The Dictator's Handbook". One of the few books I've read that has given me a completely new outlook on the world.
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> Can you imagine traveling that way? Plenty of people can imagine it because they travel that way every day. Trains all over Asia and Europe reach those speeds and faster.
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> * It's closest 70's show would probably be Dallas which had 350 million people worldwide watch an episode. That's a well done hook even if they could not show nudes etc.* You can't compare numbers directly like that

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